Ana Cláudia Almeida and Carla Santana

auroras is pleased to present the project “Submersive – Act I” by Ana Cláudia Almeida and Carla Santana. Selected by the Open Call for the swimming pool, the artists present a painting of the dimensions of the bottom of the pool, submerged in water. On the boundary between painting, installation and performance, the creation process was open; visitors who passed through the space during the month of November followed a choreography of the painting carried out by the two artists. In this final moment, the filling of the pool modifies the painting, as well as creates a kind of refraction and optical distortion, adding the organic shapes of the background with the movement of the water, the reflection of the sky and the surroundings.

The artists say that “by sharing intellectual affinities and working together, we realized the interest in building a site-specific that would lead to the relationship between bodily performance and surface performance.” The project is carried out with the support of the Secretariat of Culture and Creative Economy of the State of São Paulo, through ProAC.

Ana Cláudia Almeida is from Rio de Janeiro and works with art, mainly painting and drawing. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design from UERJ and Virgnia Commonwealth University, in Richomnd (USA). She discovered that art could be a possibility of life through the sharing of intentions with the Trovoa collective, which she has been part of since 2017. She participated in exhibitions at Galpão Bela Maré, Parque Lage, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio, Museu de Arte do Rio, Imperial Palace, Museum of the Republic, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, among other spaces. She participated in residencies at Valongo Festival, Pivô Pesquisa and Rato Branko and was nominated for PIPA and EDP das Artes awards. She has presented solo shows at Fundação de Arte de Niterói, Quadra Galeria and Central Galeria.

Carla Santana (São Gonçalo, 1995), studying Arts at the Fluminense Federal University. She entered the artistic universe from theater, where she acted in two companies: Terraço Artes Integradas and Mundé. Co-founder and articulator of the national movement Trovoa. Her production is composed of multiple visuals such as drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, photography, video and performance. It starts from the idea that every image is text; and the body as a fundamental device of expressiveness. It seeks to externalize and investigate the subtle relationships between the subjective-body and the social-body, a two-way street. Expressing that intellectuality is generated and moved from head to toe.